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Black Schoolgirls at the Intersection of Consent and Property: Mapping a Socio-Historical Analysis for Anti-Rape Education Futures in Schooling Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Serena M. Wilcox
This article examines how the concept of consent, persons as property, with its links to the convergence of law, imperial governance and schooling reveal the fragility and possibilities of consent ...
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The Cenote as Material Feminist Figuration: From the Holocene to the Halocline Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jianni Tien
Cenotes are naturally occurring freshwater sinkholes that are formed when limestone bedrock erodes, exposing subterranean water. They are visually striking: cavernous, circular holes in the ground ...
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Workshopping Troubles: Towards Feminist Digital Methods Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jessamy Perriam, Marisa Leavitt Cohn, Michael Hockenhull, Lara Reime, Luis Landa, Katrine Meldgaard Kjær, Henriette Friis
Digital methods, taken up in the collection and analysis of data, raise concerns around extraction, representation, care, consent, and participation familiar to feminist methodologies. At a feminis...
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Rape by Deception in Popular Culture: The Hidden Harm in Body-swap Narratives Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Lenise Prater, Evie Kendal
The increasing support for affirmative and informed consent to sexual activity has led to several jurisdictions, including the UK, several US states and Israel, to incorporate rape by deception, or...
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Ita Buttrose, Dulcie Boling, and Nene King: The Construction of ‘Idealised Feminine Leadership’ in the Australian Media, 1972–1999 Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Lauren Samuelsson
Ita Buttrose, Dulcie Boling, and Nene King were three of the most influential women leaders in the Australian media from the 1970s through to the turn of the twenty-first century. They were all edi...
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‘A Prisoner on the Rack’: Marital Rape, Consent, and the Gothic in Late-Nineteenth-Century Colonial Women’s Writings Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Zoe Smith
This article explores how marital rape was represented in the fiction and non-fiction writings of four colonial female authors – Barbara Baynton, Ada Cambridge, Louisa Lawson, and Rosa Praed. It ex...
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Public Health in Private Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Philippa Nicole Barr
Elite women seized the public health campaign during the 1900 plague outbreak to assert political influence and advocate for sanitation reform grounded in their domestic experiences. These women ad...
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Creating Feminist Futures by Imagining Lessons Differently: Using Speculative Fabulation and Poetic Inquiry as Methods to Trouble Classroom Expectations Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Katja Hiltunen, Greg Campbell
This article employs speculative fabulation and poetic inquiry as methods to explore the role of the body and embodied experiences in the classroom. We read ethnographic material from secondary sch...
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Reimagining Pigs – A Multispecies, Ecofeminist Research Method Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Ekaterina Gladkova, Naho Matsuda
Food production is an example of inter- and intra-action between different species and abiotic actors. Yet, capitalism-driven food system is increasingly wreaking havoc on natural ecosystems and th...
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In Search of Non-Linear Futures: Feminist Methodological-Analytical Strategies for Reading Against the Grain Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Justine Grønbæk Pors, Signe Ravn
Feminist and queer thinkers are increasingly problematising linear time and developing other ways of theorising and exploring non-linear time and temporalities. In this article, we join such work a...
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Queering the System from within: Autostraddle as a Method for Future Digital Worlds Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Kiera Obbard, Lauren McLean
Despite the harmful potentials of social media, the digital world appears to offer endless potential for change. A queer and feminist example is Autostraddle, a digital community and publication fo...
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Reading Group as Method for Feminist Environmental Humanities Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 James Gardiner, Hayley Singer, Jennifer Hamilton, Astrida Neimanis, Mindy Blaise
This article argues that reading groups are a collective field building and research method in Feminist Environmental Humanities, an interdisciplinary scholarly area at the intersections of feminis...
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Reading Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog with Deutsch, Nietzsche and Nijinsky Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Sally Gardner
In this article I argue that Jane Campion’s film The Power of the Dog (2021), can be read through Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy (1967); and that Campion’s films more generally can be viewed insi...
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Teaching for Liberation: The Manifesto Assignment as an Example of bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Saartje Tack
Diversity and inclusion, decolonising the curriculum, and intersectionality have become buzzwords in higher education, with questions raised about what counts as knowledge and whose knowledge count...
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Doing Film Feminisms in the Age of Popular Feminism: A Roundtable Convened by Claire Perkins and Jodi Brooks Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Claire Perkins, Jodi Brooks, Janice Loreck, Pearl Tan, Jessica Ford, Rebecca J. Sheehan
In a move that has now been thoroughly documented, the Anglophone West of the past decade or so has become an environment in which feminism is popular. Film and television, and the discourses aroun...
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Radioactive Spacetimes and the Quantum Cosmologies of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Kaitlin Moore
This article draws upon the work of poet Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, who incorporates Marshallese storytelling techniques and draws upon matrilineal Marshallese lifeways to contend with the ‘slow violen...
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The History and Impact of Women in the Parliament of Western Australia: From Golden Age to Disappointment Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 David J. Gilchrist, Grace Brooks
Despite their significant contributions to parliament and the Western Australian community, the role of women in the WA public sphere has historically been overlooked due to cultural and structural...
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Sharing the Wealth: Tax, Justice, Gender and Care Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Miranda Stewart
Australia’s prosperity in the twentieth century relied on economic growth to lift incomes, and a tax and welfare state to share the wealth. Australians became rich, and social expenditures equalise...
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Reflections on, and from, Feminist Practice: Introduction to the ‘Home’ Special Issue Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Jane Simon, Sophia Maalsen, Lilian Chee, Cathy Smith
Home is a vital site and subject for feminist research. This introduction to the special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on ‘Home’ begins by reflecting on domestic spaces and routines as they ...
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Crazy Rich Asians: Towards an Ornamental Feminist Account of Wealth and Desire Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Liu Xin
Wealth is often seen as an object of desire. That is, it is what desire desires and it comes to represent desire. The accumulation of wealth is commonly considered excessive and coming at the cost ...
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Mapping Relational Intensities and Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic Home: Understanding Carers’ Practices Through Cultural Probes Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Gretchen Coombs, Kelly Hussey-Smith, Larissa Hjorth, Julienne van Loon
ABSTRACT This article explores the complex emotional geography of contemporary domestic spaces and invisible forms of care during periods of working and caring from home (WCFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic lockdowns and restrictions carers and creatives were disproportionally impacted. In June 2020 we developed an open call for creative responses under the title of ‘Work, Care
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Mothers’ Agency and Responsibility in the Australian Bushfires: A Feminist New Materialist Account Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Louisa Allen, Celia Roberts, Rebecca Williamson, Mary Lou Rasmussen
This article employs new materialist theory to the accounts of women who were pregnant, giving birth or parenting new-borns during the Australian bushfires of 2019/2020. As feminist scholars we are...
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Women in the Global Super Rich. An Analysis of the Forbes World’s Billionaires List, 2010–2023 Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Emma Ischinsky, Daria Tisch
ABSTRACT Although wealth concentration and large fortunes have attracted increased scholarly attention in recent decades, this work has been largely gender-blind. This study examines changes in the gender composition of global billionaires over the last 14 years (Forbes world’s billionaires list, 2010 – 2023) and asks how male and female billionaires differ in their likelihood to perpetuate their billionaire
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Stolenwealth: Examining the Expropriation of First Nations Women’s Unpaid Care Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Elise Klein
ABSTRACT This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing in Australia and is intricately linked to wealth accumulation – where First Nations people’s labour, land and lives have been, and continue to be, expropriated. Whilst feminist scholars have long shown how the capitalist economy free
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The Role of Housing Wealth in Young Adults’ Imagined Futures: Investor Subjectivities in the Minskian Household Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Julia Cook
ABSTRACT Scholarly interest in assets has grown over recent years, with housing receiving particular attention. At the same time a related body of work has focussed on intergenerational financial assistance with home ownership, considering how proximity to assets may lead to direct assistance with purchasing property. In this article I draw on interviews conducted with 80 donors and recipients of family
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Sophia Maalsen and Cathy Smith, Interview with Sophie Dyring and Samantha Donnelly on A Design Guide for Older Women’s Housing Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Sophia Maalsen, Cathy Smith
ABSTRACT In 2022 Sophie Dyring and Samantha Donnelly published A Design Guide for Older Women’s Housing.11 A Design Guide for Older Women’s Housing formed part of the project, ‘Unequivocal Women’s Housing: A post-occupancy study of housing types for women over 45 at risk of homelessness in suburban Melbourne,’ that was funded by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation. The work was completed under the
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How Wealth Inequalities are Made: An Interview with Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Lisa Adkins
ABSTRACT As part of this special issue on Wealth, Australian Feminist Studies Co-Editor Lisa Adkins met with Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac to discuss their book, The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality (2023). Published by Harvard University Press and translated by Juliette Rogers, The Gender of Capital was first published in French as Le Genre du Capital: Comment la Famille
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‘Representational Irony’: Navigating Succession Planning in Youth Civil Society Organisations Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Lisa Carson
A strong civil society is fundamental to the wellbeing and resilience of communities. Young people play powerful in civil society activism, but their contribution is yet to be fully grasped and app...
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Disrupting the Architectural Line: Wandering Domestic Objects in Public Spaces Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Cathy Smith, Ainslie Murray, Demet Dincer, Eva Lloyd
ABSTRACT With a particular focus on the construction and occupation of space, we will engage and trouble habitual distinctions between the interior as a site of private domestic occupation and the street as a public domain. Drawing from philosophical and cultural discourses about nomadism, mobility and everyday life that prioritise the dissolution of boundary conditions, the article will develop a
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‘Persistent’ Migrant Kitchens: Spatial Analogies and the Politics of Sharing Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Anoma Pieris, Kelum Palipane
ABSTRACT Using the spatial analogy of the migrant kitchen this article makes an argument for diversifying Australian feminist architectural practice and disciplinary inquiry to anticipate other culturally plural framings and experiences of the built environment. Its parallel focus on four ethnographic vignettes offers insights into the ways in which migrants mobilise familial culinary traditions for
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Smart Home Masculinities Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Sarah Pink, Yolande Strengers, Rex Martin, Kari Dahlgren
ABSTRACT Existing research has shown dominant smart home imaginaries to be gendered visions of technologically deterministic lives of affluent young white men and middle-class hetero-normative white cultures. Instead, we argue, a more realistic, plausible and ethical approach to smart home design needs to originate from the different starting point of gender diversity and equality in the home. To demonstrate
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Remaking Home: Creative Practice as Part of Domesticity’s Changing Significance Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Susie Elliott
ABSTRACT While the home has a history of being overlooked as a site of great social impact, this is clearly shifting as it becomes a site for diverse and significant social participation. Technological connectivity is reshaping the household towards an increasingly public life, remarkable for a domain that until relatively recently had been thought of primarily in terms of privatised care and leisure
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Making Rights and Realities: How Australian Human Rights Make Gender, Alcohol and Other Drugs Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Kate Seear, Sean Mulcahy
Australia is unique among Western nations in that it does not have a national bill of rights; in lieu, rights protections have proceeded in a piecemeal fashion, with some jurisdictions developing t...
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“Why Does She Have to Wear Make-up? She Looks Better Natural!” Staged Photos and Sexual Subjectivities Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Emma Phillips
As women’s sexy selfie-making practices have burgeoned, so too have popular and feminist discourses of concern about them. One aspect of concern is that they are inauthentic or ‘unnatural’ presenta...
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Domus, Dream, Domicide: Home as Limit Point in the Pyrocene Lessons from the ‘Black Summer’ Australian Bushfires Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Scott Webster, Fiona Allon
ABSTRACT This article explores the way in which bushfires challenge our theoretical frameworks for comprehending both ‘home’ and ‘home destruction’. Disaster scholarship has long argued that the very idea of ‘natural disaster’ remains inadequate as a term of description for the entanglements of the human and natural – acutely so for the entanglements that are at the heart of a changing climate and
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Homelessness as a Feminist Issue: Revisiting the 1970s Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Anne O’Brien
ABSTRACT Homelessness among women is a pressing social problem and the barriers to solving it are difficult to shift. A number of scholars have argued that, in addition to the gender pay gap, unpaid labour and family violence, the problem lies in the fact that responses to homelessness are still shaped by conceptualisations that developed when it was seen as a problem of white adult men. And yet there
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The Royal Commission on Human Relationships and the Australian Women’s Weekly, 1977–1980: The Personal, the Political, the Popular Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Leah Nichol
ABSTRACT The Australian Women’s Weekly (the Weekly) has long been regarded as a publication that built its success upon espousing a traditional femininity to Australian women through its features on home, family and fashion. The advent of second-wave feminism in the early 1970s prompted swift and radical critiques of the role of women in Australian society, with women’s magazines one key focus for
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‘Just How Things Are … ’: Traumatic Lives in Natasha Kermani’s Lucky Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Jasmine Sandes
ABSTRACT This article discusses cinematic engagement with cyclical gendered violence and a present saturated in crisis in the film Lucky. As part of the broader cultural conversation about gendered violence and the #MeToo movement, this film presents an image of life after trauma and the dissonance between neoliberal feminisms that champion ‘self-empowerment’, and the ongoing crisis-state of traumatic
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What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Finola Laughren
Published in Australian Feminist Studies (Vol. 37, No. 111, 2022)
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Memories of Entanglement: Conflicts Around Sexuality at the Sydney Women’s Commission 1973 Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Emma Torzillo, Heather Goodall
ABSTRACT The Women’s Commission held in Sydney in March 1973, was organised by Women’s Liberation as a ‘speak out’, allowing the theories and practices of the new wave women’s movement to be shared and contested. This paper investigates tensions around lesbianism and feminism by considering both archival evidence from 1973 of the Commission’s ‘Women as Sex Objects’ session and oral histories undertaken
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‘So, What is a Good Masculinity?’: Navigating Normativity in Violence Prevention with Men and Boys Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Sarah McCook
ABSTRACT Engaging men and boys to address the links between masculinity and gendered violence is a rapidly expanding space for primary prevention, in Australia and globally. There are parallel debates within feminist commentary on violence prevention and in masculinity studies over how to conceptualise and deconstruct masculinity for the long-term transformation of gender inequality. This article analyses
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Commodified Nature: Intertwined Threads of Identification Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Morgan Rocha
ABSTRACT Environmentalist concerns have been consistently dismissed and disputed by conservative right-wing actors. In this article, I argue that anti-environmentalism, with its persistent links to anti-genderist, racist and classist discourses, is best understood through an ecofeminist lens. Within hegemonic development discourse, nature is routinely apprehended as a commodity to be used. I argue
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Janet Frame’s Autobiographical Frock Consciousness Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Harriette Richards
ABSTRACT This article investigates New Zealand author Janet Frame’s relationship to clothes in the three volumes of her autobiography, To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table and Envoy from Mirror City. It uses the concept of ‘frock consciousness’ – conceived by Virginia Woolf in 1925 as an idea through which to explore one of the many states of consciousness a person may inhabit – as a tool through which
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Greta Thunberg is ‘giving a face’ to Climate Activism: Confronting Anti-Feminist, Anti-Environmentalist, and Ableist Memes Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Michele White
ABSTRACT Anti-feminists, anti-environmentalists, and ableists use memes of activist Greta Thunberg, especially representations of her face, to angrily depict her as irrational and a monster. Participants in these interlinked groups create straw versions of feminist activists and distinguish men’s purported rational development of civilisation from emotional girls, women, and nature. Individuals perform
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The Pachamama in the Vatican Garden: Integral Ecology, Climate Change, and Conservatism in the Pan-Amazon Synod Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Lisset Coba, María Moreno
ABSTRACT In the encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis proposes Integral Ecology as the moral basis for defending the biosphere in light of capitalist ambition. At the same time, he defines the monogamous and heterosexual family as foundational to nature and life. These conceptions are disputed by the faithful of the Church in Amazonia, a region where religious missions have played a key role since colonial
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Dead White men vs. Greta Thunberg: Nationalism, Misogyny, and Climate Change Denial in Swedish far-right Digital Media Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Kjell Vowles, Martin Hultman
ABSTRACT In the autumn of 2018 Greta Thunberg started her school strike. Soon she and the Fridays For Future-movement rose to world-fame, stirring a backlash laying bare the intrinsic climate change denial of Swedish far-right digital media. These outlets had previously been almost silent on climate change, but in 2019, four of the ten most read articles on the site Samhällsnytt were about Thunberg
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Introduction: Entanglements of Anti-Feminism and Anti-Environmentalism in the Far-Right Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Josef Barla, Sophie Bjork-James
ABSTRACT This essay introduces the special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on ‘Climate Change, Gender, and Authoritarianism: Entanglements of Anti-Feminism and Anti-Environmentalism in the Far-Right’. Starting from the hypothesis that anti-feminism functions as a metalanguage in the far-right’s fight against liberal democracy as well as social and environmental justice, this special issue explores
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A Climate of Misogyny: Gender, Politics of Ignorance, and Climate Change Denial – An Interview with Katharine Hayhoe Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Sophie Bjork-James, Josef Barla
ABSTRACT In this interview, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe discusses with Sophie Bjork-James and Josef Barla: the issue of gender inequality in the natural sciences; the toxic entanglement of right-wing extremism, sexism and anti-science rhetoric in discourses on climate change; the far-reaching institutional and social consequences of the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science research
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Green or Gender-Modern Nativists: Do They Exist and Do They Vote for Right-Wing Populist Parties? Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Niels Spierings, Saskia Glas
ABSTRACT A current focal point of right-wing populist (RWP) parties across Western societies has been anti-environmentalism and anti-feminism, entangled with their dominant anti-migrant agenda. This clustering of positions overlaps with the conceptual GAL-TAN (Green, Alternative, Liberalist – Traditional, Authoritarian, Nationalist) distinction in voter studies. Still, numerous voters might transcend
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Arachnomadology: A Zoētic Framework for Queering Stories of Spider Sex, Life, and Death Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Ally Bisshop
ABSTRACT This article explores the death/life ecologies that flourish along the queered axes of spider reproductive behaviours – from cannibalistic sex to matricidal birth – and how the language and concepts used to describe these behaviours both reflect and distort heteronormative human accounts of gender/sex, life/death and thresholds between. It recalibrates storied accounts of spider sex, life
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Towards an Inventive Ethics of Carefull Risk: Unsettling Research Through DIY Academic Archiving Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-12-27 Niamh Moore, Nikki Dunne, Martina Karels, Mary Hanlon
ABSTRACT In this article, we call for an inventive ethics of care-full risk for qualitative research. While methodological experimentation is widely welcomed across the social sciences, there is little talk of innovation in ethical principles and practice. We argue that research ethics is an ‘invented tradition’ (Hobsbawm 2012), which has become unquestioned convention. We take up the archiving and
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Commodity Feminism and Dressing the ‘Best Self’ on A Practical Wedding Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Ilya Parkins, Rosie Findlay
ABSTRACT Fashion as a cultural industry, with its interface between self and social, is laden with potential for interventions in systems of power. Yet its changemaking potential is susceptible to co-optation by neoliberal discourses that harness politics with a commodified, perfectible individuality that superficially counteracts hegemony even as it subtly reinforces it. So much is evident in nominally
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Research from the Heart: Friendship and Compassion as Personal Research Values Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Jennifer Douglas
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the author’s efforts to center friendship and compassion as in research that is highly personal and intimate, as well as on the ways that friendship and compassion, as research values, can sit in tension with university research ethics board (REB) approval processes. The article includes three research case studies to explore how procedural ethics review by REBs overlooks
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Embracing Amateurs: Four Practices to Subvert Academic Gatekeeping Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Michelle Moravec
ABSTRACT Citational practices function as a form of academic gatekeeping. To create a more inclusive scholarship, authors must consciously commit to embracing the contributions of all researchers, including amateurs. I base my case on Mildred Crowl Martin's biography of Donaldina Cameron, a New Zealand-born moral reformer in San Francisco's Chinatown. Martin undertook extensive original research during
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A Screen of One's Own: The Domestic Caregiver as Researcher During Covid-19, and Beyond Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Cathy Smith
ABSTRACT Much has been written about the domestic interior as a site of subjection and containment for women, both literal and metaphoric. This brief essay engages the ethical complexities resulting from the unexpected transformation of the domestic interior from a site of largely non-market exchanges into a work-from-home (WFH) and research base during the Covid-19 pandemic. The consequent enfolding
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Disrupting Phallic Logic: (Re)thinking the Feminine with Hélène Cixous and Bracha Ettinger Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Ruth Daly
ABSTRACT This article brings into dialogue the writings of Hélène Cixous and Bracha Ettinger. I contend that Cixous’s writing unsettles the very questions that form the basis for Ettinger’s key theoretical propositions, making for a productive dialogue between these two feminist thinkers. I identify key concepts and convergences that, when considered together, offer a novel methodology for thinking
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Feminist Research Ethics and First Nations Women’s Life Narratives: A Conversation Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Kath Apma Penangke Travis, Victoria Haskins
ABSTRACT This essay offers a reflection on conducting historical research relating to First Nations women’s lives and cross-cultural relationships in ways that are ethical and informed by feminist sensibilities. In dialogic mode, the authors work through issues and insights that have arisen in the process of researching the life story of Arrernte woman Minnie Undelya Apma, who was abducted as a child
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Marriage Equality Blues: Method and Mess around the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Lee Wallace, Victoria Rawlings, Paul Kelaita, Anika Gauja
ABSTRACT This article examines the attitudes and experiences of participants in the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey through an interdisciplinary collaboration joining insights from the humanities and social sciences. Prior analyses of the Survey results, both in academic scholarship and media commentary, have focused on particular social characteristics of those who supported or opposed
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Learning to Stand with Gyack: A Practice of Thinking with Non-Innocent Care Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Lisa Slater
ABSTRACT Settler colonialism attempts to make invisible the labours of care that Indigenous peoples have been doing for millennia. Notably, the imposition of settler colonial ontologies-epistemologies disrupt and compromise Indigenous people’s obligations to land and ancestors (Kwaymullina, Ambelin. 2020. Living on Stolen Land. Broome: Magabala Books, 7). Kim Tallbear calls upon settler scholars to
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The Neo-Malthusian Reflex in Climate Politics: Technocratic, Right Wing and Feminist References Australian Feminist Studies (IF 1.17) Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Susanne Schultz
ABSTRACT A neo-Malthusian reflex can be observed in the climate debate: statistical calculations link climate change to world population growth and suggest strategies for birth control. The undead neo-Malthusian ghost is being revived, with its reference to the category of ‘population’ and its colonial-racist and social-Darwinist legacies. This article discusses this dangerous development, paying particular